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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Fast food, soft drinks and candy not associated with BMI according to Cornell researchers

“[F]or the majority of patients – including those who are overweight (BMI up to 44.8) – there was no relationship between the frequency they eat of these foods [fast food, soft drinks and candy] and their BMI [body mass index] in this sample [a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States],” according to a recent study by Brian Wansink and David Just from Cornell University.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Overweight adolescents ate 400 calories more of an extra-large fast food meal than lean adolescents according to a study from researchers at Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

FAST FOOD

Fast food accounts for 10% of food ingestion by US schoolchildren vs 2% thirty years ago

"[F]ast food consumption now accounts for 10% of food ingestion by [U.S.] schoolchildren, compared with 2% three decades ago," notes to a paper from Dr. Ashish Sinha from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Fast food spending in the U.S. has increased 18-fold in the last 30 years

The amount of money spent on fast food in the U.S. has increased 18-fold over the past 30 years, from $6 billion to $110 billion, according to a report titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2008 from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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"[F]ast food from major chains in most countries still contains unacceptably high levels of industrially produced trans-fatty acids... [which] have powerful biological effects and may contribute to increased weight gain, abdominal obesity, type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease," concludes a study from the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark.Read the entire article | Email this article

People eat 200 more calories on days they eat fast food

People eat 200 more calories on days they eat fast food according to a study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center.
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Children who eat fast food consume 187 more calories per day

Children who eat fast-food consume more calories, more sugar, more fat, more carbohydrates, more sugary sodas, less milk, less fiber, and less fruits and nonstarchy vegetables per day than children who do not eat fast-food according to a study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center.
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Overweight adolescents ate 400 calories more on days they ate fast food, but lean did not

Overweight adolescents at 409 calories more on days that they ate fast food than days they did not, but lean adolescents did not eat more according to a study from researchers at Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass.
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Fast food causes weight gain in girls

"Adolescent girls who eat quick-service food twice a week or more are likely to increase their relative BMI over time," according to a study from researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Children 2- to 5.9-years-old who ate at fast food restaurants at least once a week were 55 percent more likely to be overweight than than those who ate there less than once a week according to a study from Harvard.
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Americans increased money spent on food away from home from one-third to nearly one-half

In 1970, Americans spent one-third of their money spent on food away from home, whereas, in 2001, this had increased to nearly half (47 percent) according to a paper from the RAND corporation.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

FAST FOOD

Fat content of fast food varies by country

The fat content of fast food chains varies by country. The amount of fat in an order of McDonald's French Fries and Chicken McNuggets purchased from 35 different countries was found to contain anywhere from 41 to 65 grams of fat. The fat content of an order of French Fries and Hot Wings purchased from Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in 35 countries varied from 42 grams to 74 grams.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

CHILDHOOD OBESITY

U.S. Chidren consume one-third of calories from foods prepared away from home

Children in the U.S. consume approximately one-third of their calories from foods prepared away from home, whereas this type of food consumed by children is minimal in Russia and China.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

More fast-food restaurants in black neighborhoods than white neighborhoods

There are more fast-food restaurants per square mile in low-income areas and predominantly black neighborhoods than higher-income areas and predominantly white neighborhoods according to a study from Louisiana. This may be contributing to the obesity epidemic among low-income and black families.
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